Service Example: One of the world’s largest industrial manufacturers has engaged Electronic Scriptorium to catalog its historic photo assets. Working in conjunction with the firm’s scanning vendor, Electronic Scriptorium retrieves and catalogs the digital images using the firm’s extensive product taxonomy and controlled vocabulary. Over a century of images are represented in the collection requiring extensive product identification and knowledge. The manufacturing firm has generated over $10 million dollars in direct revenue and savings associated with its digital archive efforts.

Service Example: Controlled vocabularies must be actively managed in order to receive the maximum level of asset retrieval specificity. A major corporation’s controlled vocabulary had slowly grown to over 6,000 terms through lack of managed growth. Electronic Scriptorium identified a range of vocabulary improvements that allowed the list to be reduced to slightly more than 2,000 terms. Electronic Scriptorium provided maintenance rules and procedures that have allowed the firm to regain control of this important corporate asset.

Service Example: A prestigious corporate archive engaged Electronic Scriptorium to assist with the selection of a digital asset management system. The DAM system requirements included both audio and digital photo support, file rendering, web-based access and the capability to expand capacity to include documents and other text-based resources. Electronic Scriptorium guided the organization through a series of product reviews and final selection criteria development. The process was made more difficult due to the organization’s prior purchase of an expensive content management system that was not able to meet the organization’s expectations. Electronic Scriptorium’s proposed solution met the organization’s needs for a cost significantly less than the maintenance fees of the previously purchased content management system.

Service Example: A leading world newspaper uses Electronic Scriptorium’s services to convert its historic photo collection subject headings to modern, standard vocabulary terms. Digital images are then electronically linked with catalog descriptive records created by Electronic Scriptorium’s professional cataloging staff and loaded into the newspaper’s digital asset management system. The project provides the newspaper not only with new revenue sources from existing analog content repositories but also provides unique historic content resources for use on its growing e-news site.

Service Example: An international publisher spent years assembling digital asset libraries to support its book trade. Over the years the independent digital repositories grew yet little consideration was given to standardizing the individual metadata elements. When an enterprise content management system was deployed assets from disparate repositories were suddenly “side-by-side” under a single metadata system. Previously independent metadata standards and conventions now were being scrutinized under a much higher level of editorial demand. Electronic Scriptorium deployed a rapid review of the former cataloging practices and publisher’s expectations under the new content management system. A combination of metadata model changes, data editing techniques and metadata cataloging services allowed the publisher to quickly overcome years of uncoordinated metadata effort and to go forward with a well-designed enterprise-wide metadata model as its digital repository continues to grow.

Service Example: A provider of demographic information and research sought to improve the granularity of its research products through enhanced automatic collection and classification of web-based responses. Electronic Scriptorium implemented a strategy for importing public-domain taxonomy into an OWL-compliant database management system. Electronic Scriptorium worked with the provider to develop a rules-based logic system linked to a “rich-taxonomy”. The ontological system is maintained through an OWL-based software management system.

Service Example: A world-class research university sought to convert a non-standard manuscript collection to an XML-based Electronic Archival Document (EAD) structure accessible through the internet. While EAD standards exist, the university modified the standard EAD specification to facilitate its internal requirements. Electronic Scriptorium provided the university with extensive analysis and project planning support prior to the commencement of the project. Project planning support included financial cost projections for a diverse range of document types and formats, development and design assistance for software tools, assistance during implementation of custom EAD changes and a web-based log that tracks all project related decisions.

Service Example: An international trade association sought to digitize and catalog its rich media collection to promote increased usage by its international membership. Electronic Scriptorium provided conversion and metadata cataloging services for the association’s large collection. Content was then distributed through the association’s website to members all over the world including Russia, India and the European Union.

Service Example: A major television network relies on a taxonomy structure developed and implemented by Electronic Scriptorium. The taxonomy facilitates “drill-down” searches that retrieve large segments of similar video assets by standard taxonomy subjects. Partners and employees then use keyword searches to locate the specific video assets within the assets located through the taxonomy drill-down search. The resultant use of the video database by the network’s internal sales staff and outside partners has been a huge financial success.